TELEGRAM TO I. I. VATSETIS AND S. I. ARALOV[1]

Written:Written on April 21 or 22, 1910Published:First published in part on April 21, 1957, inLiteraturnaya GazetaNo. 48.

      Published in full in Ukrainian in 1958 in the book:Borotba trudyashchikh Bukovini za sotsialne i natsionalne vizvolennya i vozz’yednannya z Ukrainskoyu R.S.R. 1917–1941, Chernivtsi.

      Published in full in Russian in 1961 in the book:Iz istorii grazhdanskoi voiny v SSSR, Vol. 2.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Commander-in-ChiefVatsetis andAralov, member of the R.M.C.R.Serpukhov

Theadvance into part of Galicia and Bukovina is
essential for contact with Soviet Hungary. This task must be
achieved more quickly and surely, but beyond this task
no occupation of Galicia and Bukovina is needed, for the
Ukrainian army must on no account be distracted from its
two main objectives: the first, the most important and
most urgent, is to help the Donets Basin. This assistance
must be given quickly and on a large scale. The second
objective is to establish a secure link by rail with Soviet
Hungary. Inform us of your directives to Antonov and
measures for checking their fulfilment.

LeninChairman, Council of Defence

[1]Thisis a reply to a telegram received on April 21, 1919, from
Commander-in-Chief I. I. Vatsetis and member of the Revolutionary
Military Council of the Republic S. I. Aralov, inquiring whether
an advance into Galicia and Bukovina was permissible politically
and what objective it pursued.

Leninwrote on the telegram from Vatsetis and Aralov: “To
Comrade Sklyansky’s secretary: please code and send off the
attached (this probably refers to Lenin’s telegram.—Ed.), then pass
it on to Comrade Sklyansky for filing.” (Iz istorii grazhdanskoi
voiny v SSSR, Vol. 2, 1961, p. 382.)